Ella elizabeth west and jacob souders west



(No Model.)

- E. E. 8v J. S. WEST.

CLASP.

llNrTs STATES PATENT Ormea.

ELLA ELIZABETH VEST AND JACOB SOUDERS \VEST, OF NEWv YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS OF ONE'THIRD TO BENJAllIlN F. YATES, OF SAME PLACE.

CLASP.

SPECIFICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,747, dated February 15I 1887.

Application tiled November 23, i886. Serial No. 219,675. (Nuo model.)

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Beit known that we, ELLA ELIZABETH WnsT and .Moon Sounnns WnsT, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,

have invented-new and useful improvments in Clasps, ofwhich the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in clasps for hose and garment supporters or other devices; and it consists of the peculiar combination and novel construction and arrangement of the various parts for service, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The obj ect of our invention is to provide an improved clasp of simple and durable construction which can be readily and securely applied with ease and rapidity to a hose-supporter, and the sections of which cannot be- 2O come easily detached, while at the same time they can be readily manipulated by hand to connect them together and detach them from one another.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of our invention applied to a strap or piece of webbing of a hose-supporter. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof on the line :C of Fig. l. Fig. 8 is a detached perspective view of the sections disconnected from 3o one another. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detached perspective views of modified forms of one section of the clasp.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the clasp of our invention, which consists of the two parts or sections B C, which are to be firmly secured to the strap or webbing D of a hose or garment supporter.

40 The part or section B of ourimproved clasp consists of a shank, b,- and two integral hooks, b', which extend or are curved in opposite directions and upon `theshank of the section. These hooks are arranged or disposed on opposite sides of the shank, at one end thereof, and they are formed integral with the shank for strength and eheapness, the shank and hooks of the section being preferably stamped out of a single piece of metal. The hooks are 5o curved upon the shank to leave an intermediate space between the opposing edges of theA hooks and the shank, into which a spur or projection on the seclion C of the clasp is adapted to fit or take.

The section C ofthe clasp consists of a iiat base-plate, c, lo which are rigidly affixed two or more spurs or projections, c', which are adapted to fit into the spaces between the shank and hooks of the section B. These projections are arranged in line and parallel with each 6o other ou the baseplate, a space being left between the said projections to permit one end of the shank ofthe section B to tit between the same. These projections or spurs c may be formed by headed pins, as shown in Figs. l to 3, inclusive, of the drawings, and these headed pins are provided with the curved shanks, which lit snugly in the curved portions of the hooks of the section B. In lieu, however, of the headed pins we may employ eyes d, which 7o' are bent or formed of wire and are rigidly secured or affixed to the baseiplate, as shown in Fig. 4.; but, again, we may employ curved hooks e, which are cut or stamped from a piece` of sheet metal and are rigidly secured to the base-plate, as in Fig. 5. In these different moditied forms ofthe section B of our invention the same generic features of construction are'preservede-to wit, the base-plate having the spurs or projections rigidly affixed thereto 8o and arranged a short distance from one another to receive the end of the shank of the section B to which the hooks are connected.

The sections or parts B C of our improved clasp may be securely connected to the strap S5 D or other device by numerous methods; but we prefer to provide one end of the said sec tions with an integral loop, f, through which the strap is passed and secured. In addition to this loop, one or both of the sections may 9o have transverse openings g, through which eyelets t' may be passed, to more firmly secureV the sections of the clasp to the strap; but teeth or pron gs j can be substituted for these devices, or employed therewith, as shown 'in Fig. 6. 95 No novelty, however, is claimed for these methods of securing the sections of the clasp to the strap, as we are aware that they have been in extensive use for long periods of time.

The operation of our invention is obvious. IOO

The sections of the clasp are secured or united to the strap or straps and the hooks of the section B are tted over the spurs or projections on the section C, to securely connect the two 5 sections together, the end of the shank of the section B to which the hooks thereof are connected tting in the space between the two projections thereon. In connecting the two sections together the section B should be ad Io justed so that the shank thereof fits between the spurs or projections and the free ends of the hooks impinge against the said projections, after which the section B is elevated to cause the projections to enter the space between the i5 hooks and the shank.

should be observed in detaching the sections of the clasp from one another, as the operation can then be easily and expeditiously performed.

2o The device can be manufactured for a triing sum, and it is very simple and durable in construction, as well as easy of operation.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secureiby Letters l. As an improved article of manufacture, a clasp comprising two sections, one of which has a shank and hooks at one end thereof, which hooks are arranged on opposite sides The same precaution of the shank and project upwardly substan- 3o tially parallel with the shank, and the other two fixed ,projections arrangedashort distance from one another to permit the shank of the other section to Iit between the same, the diameter of the shank being slightly less than 35 the space separating the projections, whereby the shank can be inserted without turning it sidewise, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described clasp, comprising the sec- 4o tion B, having the shank and the integral hooks at one end, that are curved upon the shank toleave intermediate spaces between theiitopposing edges, and the section C, having the base-plate and the fixed spurs or pro- 45 jections, arranged out of contact with each other to adapt the shank of the section B to fit between the same, and the hooks thereof to tit around them, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth. 5c

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we havehereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ELLA ELIZABETH VEST. JACOB SOUDERS WEST. W'itnesses:

O'rro THOMAS, WVM. F. CHAVE. 

